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2. IMPORTANT: Preliminary Information and Setup

2.1 WARNING! for Windows95 OSR2 (version 4.00.950b) users:

Do NOT attempt dual booting with Windows 95 without first consulting the Windows 95 OSR2 FAQ. The FAQ also contains a great deal of information regarding FAT32. In a nutshell, if you have OSR2 and are using a FAT16 file system, you can still dual boot using the F4 Function Key.

NOTE: If you have Windows 95 OSR2, and are using a FAT32 file system, then the dual booting methods in this mini-HOWTO using the F4 Function Key will not work and should not be attempted.

However, there are a couple of alternate methods you can use to automate booting Linux at startup, which are discussed in Section 6 .

2.2 Things that are assumed:

2.3 Items you need before you start:

NOTE: If your hard drive already contains the autoexec.dos, config.dos, io.dos, msdos.dos, and command.dos files, then you will not need the floppy. You can check by typing: dir and dir /ah at the root of Drive C. Also, if you installed the upgrade version of Windows 95, then it is likely that you have them.


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